Forget pizza, lasagna, cannoli... We've selected 7 Italian delicacies for those with a strong stomach
Italy is known worldwide for its rich cuisine, with excellent ingredients, great variety, and also for its ancient culinary tradition.
However, the country of pizza and pasta There are some delicaciesWeird” to the taste of most tourists.
Lampedrotto
Em Florença, the Toscana, one of the main street foods takes cow stomach (the obomaso), which is cooked for a long time, tomatoes, onion, parsley and celery.
This typical snack emerged many centuries ago among peasants.
Black pudding
Sanguinaccio is a sweet made with pig's blood, chocolate, milk, pine nuts, raisins and sugar.
Em Nápoles, is traditionally prepared for Carnival – the party before Lent, but with a lighter version, which excluded blood in production.
The sweet can be tasted (if you have a strong stomach) also in Calabria. But don't expect to find the delicacy in any restaurant in the region. The sweet was banned due to the high risk of contamination.
Mushroom coglioni
Mule testicles, in free translation, is undoubtedly a product of ancient origins, appreciated by those looking for strong flavors. “Salami” is known for its filling that contains a generous bar of fat in its central core.
It is typical of Norcia, the Umbria.
Case of March
If you think the French have the stinkiest cheeses on the planet, wait until you meet (and maybe try) Casu Marzu, from Sardinia.
Small fly larvae are responsible for fermenting the milk, resulting in a softer and more flavorful cheese.
There's just one more detail: cheese becomes toxic when the larvae die. That's why it's important enjoy the delicacy with the larvae still alive.
Rigatoni with the pajata
Rigatoni con la pajata is a classic dish from Roman cuisine. Pajata is the term for the intestine of an unweaned calf, that is, fed only with its mother's milk.
Theoretically, this milk makes the protein very creamy and flavorful after cooking.
Generally, Pajata is served in a sauce with rigatone, a short tube-shaped pasta, but it can also be grilled.
Pani câ meusa
Street food from Sicilia, pani câ meusa was born about 1100 years ago, according to historians.
The sandwich is typical of Palermo and consists of a soft bread covered with sesame seeds, stuffed with chopped veal lung, beef trachea and spleen, which were cooked and then fried in lard.
Its Italian name is sandwich with spleen.
Snail
How about a slug silver? In the Piedmont region, it is very common to find, at a certain time of year, the delicacy known as lumaca.
The mollusk is served as an appetizer. The custom was inherited from the French – the Piedmont shares a border with France.
Write in the comments which dish would you dare to try, or which is the strangest.
| EXOTIC AND WEIRD FOODS IN ITALY | |
| Lampedrotto – made with cow stomach. | |
| Black pudding – sweet made with pig’s blood. | |
| Mushroom coglioni – A type of salami with a fat bar. | |
| Case of March – Cheese with maggots. | |
| Rigatoni with the pajata – Paste with calf intestines. | |
| Pani câ meusa – Snack on beef giblets. | |
| Snail – Edible land snails. |
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